Mozilla Hacks Weekly, August 4th 2011

It’s time again for the link picks of the week from the Mozilla Developer Engagement Team!

Personally, I must say I love putting together this list since no matter how much you try and stay in touch with what is going on, it’s always nice to get tips from others and to see what they choose and why. If you have any tips for us what to read, or thoughts on our links this week, please don’t hesitate to write a comment below!

Weekly links August 4th 2011

The links we have chosen this week are:

Christian Heilmann

Havi Hoffman

.net Magazine Awards 2011 – If you were stranded without Internet in 2011, you could catch up quickly on the tastiest design and development by visiting the nominee sites across all categories here. (P.S. Vote for MDN’s Rob Hawkes. )

Jeff Griffiths

Websocket draft 10 implementation lands in Chromium – This brings the supported protocol version in line with what is already implemented in Firefox 6 Beta, and signals to developers that soon 2 out of the 3 major browsers will have awesome websocket support.

John Karahalis

Ian Hickson on HTML5: Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML5 specification, discusses the past, present, and future of HTML. In this interview, Hickson discusses his somewhat controversial prediction that HTML5 will not become a W3C Recommendation until 2022.

Robert Nyman

Tristan Nitot

The Browser by many other names : a browser is more than a rendering engine and a UI (user interface). Mitchell Baker, leader of the Mozilla project, explores what a browser can do when it comes to user sovereignty, or in other words, “to tune the Internet to the experience I want”.

About the Author

Technical Evangelist & Editor of Mozilla Hacks. Gives talks & blogs about HTML5, JavaScript & the Open Web. Robert is a strong believer in HTML5 and the Open Web and has been working since 1999 with Front End development for the web - in Sweden and in New York City.
He regularly also blogs at http://robertnyman.com and loves to travel and meet people.